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Keep walking or I'll kill you Agnes Kain  Digi-pack with eight page booklet!
Indie folk pop duo Agnes Kain (Chanelle Afford and Stefan Simunic) have been creating and playing music together for the past couple of years. Having grown up on the same street in a small town on the outskirts of Sydney, there is an intimacy and comfort to their music that comes from the closeness of being long time friends. A feeling that is projected to the listener, both on their recordings and at their live shows.
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 Across the ocean grey Agnes Kain  Wonderful digi-pack artwork.
Since the release of their debut album Keep walking or I’ll kill you in August 2007, Agnes Kain made the move to London and are now about to release their second album Across the ocean grey. Penned on buses, trains and during airport sleepovers around the world, it is another beautiful collection of songs reflecting on the small things that usually go unnoticed around the bigger things. Recorded by Stef Simunic and Chanelle Afford in London then mixread more |
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The Very Strange Year Art of Fighting  Re-released in digi-pack, May 2002.
The end of 1997 saw Art of Fighting enter the studio to begin recording their debut release. Working with Nick Carroll at his North Melbourne studio, the band have delivered a 6 song set exploring expansive, involved arrangements within fully realised songs.
review:Melbourne’s Augie March and Sydney’s John Reed Club set the standard for 1998 for debut recordings. Then, in the middle part of the year, Adelaide band Fuge increased that notch to a read more |
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Empty Nights Art of Fighting  On Empty Nights, their second mini-album, the band continue their exploration of slowly-building themes that have expansive, involved arrangements within fully realised songs. Recorded in Melbourne with engineer Nick Carroll (who recorded their debut cd) during winter of 1999.
review:
‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times’. That statement pretty much summarises the state the Australian music industry is constantly in. The Australian music industry is constantly read more |
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self-titled Artichoke Heart Soufflé  from HAC's Demo Of The Week:
A package arrived the other day from the US. There were a couple of cute doodles drawn on the cardboard like I usually get from Japan. And the sender's name: Stacy Michelson from Huntington Beach in California. Hey, I know her! I thought. Where from? Then I remembered. Stacy has been a fan of Half A Cow bands since the early '90s and also sent us a demo (on cassette! go tape!) back in 1995 of her band Daily. This time Stacy has sent a cd of her band she hasread more |
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Who You Know Artichoke Heart Soufflé  It was bound to happen sooner or later. After playing in seperate bands for years, Los Angeles based brother and sister, Brad and Stacy Michelson recorded some demos together discovering THIS was the secret recipe for an Artichoke Heart Souffle.
Their first CD, self titled, in 2006 garnered attention from Los Angeles radio station KCRW and Australian record label Half A Cow. Fall 2008 sees the release of Artichoke Heart Souffle's second CD Who You Know. With the recording of this 7 soread more |
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Domestic Departures Bernie Hayes  The second album from Bernie Hayes! |
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Every Tuesday, Sometimes Sunday Bernie Hayes  In October 1999, Bernie Hayes released his debut album and it has gone on to be seen as one of the greatest albums ever...by anyone...anywhere! To celebrate, if you buy the cd direct from us, you get both singles from it - 'Matchbox Cars and Marbles' and 'Mission In Life'. |
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Homebody Bernie Hayes  Bernie Hayes has been playing, singing, writing and recording for thirty-odd years now. And for thirty-odd years, well intentioned people have been telling him that he could really go somewhere.
Well, now, in his third solo album Homebody, the taciturn Bernie finally responds:
I’m forty five for fuck’s sake
Do you think I want to go there?
from 'You’re the best thing'
No. Bernie’s happy working in the relative peace and quiet of obscurity, teaming up with the likes of Brendan Gread more |
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Lucky Dip (the B side collection) Bernie Hayes  iTunes download only Every Bernie Hayes b-side collected here!
Song info here and hi-res cover to print
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Strange Notions Brenton Manser & the Disciples of Zen  |
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The Name Of The Band Is... Bruce  Bruce is the new project from trusted journeyman Cameron Bruce. Cameron has spent the last few years surrounded my friends, loved-ones and clowns, touring the country and the world with David McCormack’s Polaroids, GUD, Pinky Beecroft’s White Russians, and the Beautiful Girls. With Bruce, Cameron has gathered some of his loved-ones to record a few songs to produce the mini-album The Name Of The Band Is.... Think Todd Rundgren, Beach Boys and the Beatles on a Sydney holiday..read more |
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Dog Trumpet Dog Trumpet  read more |
 Antisocial Tendencies Dog Trumpet  Reg Mombassa and Peter O'Doherty's fourth album and it's another sublime
and entertaining pop masterpiece that could only come from the world of Reg and Pete, who are both just as well known these days for their paintings and artwork as much as their Mental As Anything days. On Antisocial Tendencies there's a guest vocal by Bernie Hayes and some sax by Dale Barlow and includes a cover of Marlene Dietrich’s classic ‘Lili Marlene’.
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River of Flowers Dog Trumpet  River Of Flowers is Dog Trumpet's new album, their third on Half A Cow, following 2007's classic Antisocial Tendencies. Brothers Reg Mombassa and Peter O'Doherty have spent the last three years recording some of their most personal and autobiographical songwriting to date. Universal themes are touched upon in a suite of songs that trawl through family history, memory, sex, separation, health and mortality, and traverse the globe from Ireland, England, New Zealand and back to Austraread more |
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Sound The Key Note El May  Debut EP by Gladesville's finest, Lara Meyerratken. |
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The Metal Years el Mopa  get in early - like BUY THE NEW EL MOPA CD NOW - and receive a FREE cd single!
The third album from el Mopa has been described as Sydney soul, a description the band endorses. But it’s more than that – with touches of Akron / Animal Collective psych folk, mariachi intensity and roots tinged rock. El Mopa arises more powerful than ever, with three voices leading the chorus: founder Simon Wooldridge, guitarist Matthew J Toohey (Kid Cornered) and bassist producer Emread more |
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Secret Techniques Girls With Money  Nic took time out early 1998 to record in Boston with his old friends Hilken and Winston from Fuzzy, along with Fuzzy's new drummer Nate. Nic and Hilken wrote the first song "Miss You (Faraway Eyes)" and got so excited by it that they decided to book a day at Super Sonic studio (a 16 track 2 inch machine, the very best analogue recording quality). Apart from two songs recorded with The Lyres¹ Jeff Conolly (which will be released as the Booster Valves in February 2003 on a seven inch - moo12) theread more |
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Before And After Coastal Godstar  Featuring unreleased (tracks 1-6) and rare songs (tracks 7 & 8 originally released on Coastal 'Side Four: Love & Death') plus a live show from November 1995 (tracks 9-14).
Before And After Coastal is also available as a 2CD edition with Coastal (hac42/hac105).
Both discs also sold separately. |
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Sleeper Godstar  CD DELETED - available on iTunes only |
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Coastal 2CD Godstar  Original release date: 1995 on Half A Cow/Mercury
Re-release of Godstar's 1995 album with 4 non-LP b-sides added plus 14 track limited edition disc featuring unreleased (tracks 1-6) and rare songs (tracks 7 & 8 originally released on Coastal 'Side Four: Love & Death') plus a live show from November 1995 (tracks 9-14).
Both discs also sold separately.
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"The grand sweep of these songs - taking in arrangements using brass, string and piano parts recorded both locread more |
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September Godstar  Re-released 2003.
A compilation of recordings made between the Sleeper and Coastal albums from the line-up of Nic Dalton, Tom Morgan, Robyn St. Clare and Alison Galloway. Contains the previously released 470 EP. Tracks 1-10 recorded late September 1993, track 11 and 12 recorded January 1993, track 13 recorded live at ABC Studio for JJJ 27th September 1993 and track 14 recorded live at the Lansdowne 24th September 1993. Includes covers of Richard Clapton's 'Girls On The Aread more |
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Room 15 Grandview  Grandview is Trent McNamara and Tim Oxley. They originally met when Trent's band Four Horse Town played a string of shows with Tim's band The Dearhunters back in 1999. Making friends, discovering their love of love songs and perfect harmonies, they joined musical forces in April 2001 as Grandview. Their new album, Room 15 is a collection of eight songs recorded while living at the Grandview Hotel in Melbourne and an additional five songs recorded when they followed their hearts back to Sydney. Rread more |
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Silver Apples/Fade Hippy Dribble  Plunderers aka Hippy Dribble Silver Apples
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khancoban Khancoban  The debut self-titled record from Melbourne's Khancoban. Coming in at 30 minutes, what began life as an EP is something else entirely. It was recorded in the hills outside of Melbourne at the end of 2005. Khancoban make music that is difficult to put in a certain time and place. There are elements of folk, noise and other influences apparent. Taken as a whole, Khancoban music stands apart as something that is truly its own. Although forming in mid 2004, 3/5 of the band had played together read more |
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Limbs May Fall Khancoban  Half noise, half folk - Khancoban's songs deploy in low-gravity and with a dash of grit. They are performed calmly, using calculated space and tension, exploding at key points that leave the band's filament burning in their wake. Khancoban is a hijacked car from a country town…its AM radio spilling out tunes by the likes of Wilco, Kingsbury Manx, Sufjan Stevens and Calexico - bands both influential and with kindred music. This is a band with vast sound and riddled with hideaway nooks. Now in youread more |
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Kid Cornered Kid Cornered 
What stalks the Kid's songs? For starters, there's his upbringing in the industrial Gothic landscape of Lithgow, a shrouded town, settled in a hole where the archaic mists of Blue Mountains soak the coalmines and prisons that drive dollars just west of the ranges. The Kid ran like hell from the town, but his songs could still hail from those cheap old pub rooms and TABs, from homes breaking under the weight of accumulated tobacco soread more |
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Record Kim Salmon  Kim Salmon & the Business
Plus FREE You're Such A Freak (hac68) 5 track cd EP.
As if a personal resume that's made Oz rock history isn't enough, princely Kim Salmon continues to sit at the cutting edge of contemporary rock with his album Record. Salmon has never pretended not to be enamoured of the bluesy, raunchy past of R&R, but he's also managed to make music that's edgy and intense and never wholly derivative. He's always added an Australian spin that's rung truread more |
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Can-Opened Mind Love & Death  Recorded in November 1997. Nic Dalton & John Encarnacao's experimental 50 minute cd specially commissioned by premier psych label Camera Obscura. Strangely immediate song fragments, loops and ambience, cut-ups, mantras and analogue strangeness...continuing on from Side Four of Godstar's Coastal.
from Camera Obscura Bio:
Love & Death are Australians Nic Dalton and John Encarnacao. We first came across the wonderment that these two musicians were capable of when we heard the little noread more |
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Billiepeebup Love Positions  (originally released on vinyl 1990)
A Half A Cow "Classic Reissue"
The album Billiepeebup was the first full-lengther released by Half A Cow (the Light of Day single was the first seven inch released by the label too). There are ten extra tracks on the record, in fact everything that Nic and Rob recorded together between 1985-1989 is on the cd release of Billiepeebup. The bonus tracks include an electric version of Into Your Arms, covers of Prince's Kiss and Captain Sensiblread more |
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Living The Way We Like It Lucy Lehmann 
Living The Way We Like It is Lucy
Lehmann's first release. By day she is a novelist, so it's only natural that she upholds the country-music tradition of story songs, even penning a reply (track 3: 'Dolly, Dolly, Dolly') to Dolly Parton's classic 'Jolene'.
This seven-song CD is about gut-string finger-picking, harmonies by her cousin Brooke McInerney, a mandolin track by Nic Dalton and pedal steel by Melbourne's Paul Rigby; read more |
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The Kiss That Lasted All Weekend Luke Russell  Who? Luke Russell is three things – a Philosophy lecturer at Sydney Uni, the brother of Sally ‘New Buffalo’ Seltmann and …the proud owner of one of the greatest debut pop albums ever to be released in The Kiss That Lasted All Weekend. Luke played everything by himself (except for drums and piano on one song) and the album is full of beautifully unashamed pop songs, harmonies and well-crafted lyrics about unrequited love. Includes a cover of Stephin Merritt’s ‘I’ve Got New York’.
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Nic Dalton Romolo 86-88 Nic Dalton  Available only through HAC Mailorder and on iTunes.
This is Nic's first solo album - in late 1985 the Plunderers decided to leave their hometown of Canberra and move to Melbourne, finding a terrace calld "Romolo" on the edge of West Melbourne, a few blocks from the Victoria Street Markets. They bought a four track and these are Nic's first recordings, alongside the Love Positions and the early days of Plunderers cassettes. Nic recorded the rest of the songs (tracks 11-16) when the Plunderersread more |
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Last Seen Near Trafalgar 87-89 Nic Dalton  Following on from Romolo 86-88, seventeen songs recorded by Nic Dalton between 1987 and 1989 on his 4 Track. Includes early versions of eight Plunderers songs (including 'Muffin'). All tracks previously unreleased except a different mix of 'Ring On Every Finger' appeared on a French compilation.
Includes double-sided A4 liner notes.
from the liner notes:
"It was strange mixing songs from twenty years ago. I thought it was a long time back when I mixed the songs on the Roread more |
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Home Of The Big Regret Nic Dalton and his Gloomchasers  Cd currently out of stock - vinyl and download only. Vinyl comes with FREE cd-r of the album!
"Here's a concept: A breakup record, written with your ex-girlfriend after you’ve broken up. Nic Dalton is an Australian indie legend (The Plunderers, Godstar, Sneeze), who became a big pop star in the '90s, playing bass in The Lemonheads. He also runs the Half A Cow label. This solo album sees him taking another left turn, exploring country, bluegrass and folk as he documents his breakup with Lucread more |
Bonafied Lovin' Nic Dalton and his Gloomchasers  Some light summer reading while the Gloomchasers finish off their second album Play All Night due out May 2009. This is a bluegrass cover of Chromeo’s disco hit Bonafied Lovin’.
The Gloomchasers on this recording are Nic Dalton on lead vocals and mandolin, Gavin Farley on banjo, Lucy Lehmann on gutstring guitar, Kevin McClaer on bass, Danny Heifetz on the drums and the
backing vocals by whoever we could muster up at the time.
Recorded at the Nook and Damien Gerard Winter 2008 and mread more |
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Eagle-wise Pip Proud  iTunes download only. A Half A Cow Classic Reissue
Eagle-Wise is a compilation of his LP's A Bird In The Engine and Adreneline and Richard, both albums that were originally released in 1968 and 1969 and incredibly hard to find now. Booklet written by David Nichols (Go-Betweens biographer and ex-drummer from Cannanes) who was the driving force behind the re-discovery of Pip Proud and helped Half A Cow with the release of this cread more |
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Banana Smoothie Honey double CD Plunderers  A Half A Cow "Classic Reissue"
Double CD - all the seven and ten inches from Stevie Plunder, Nic Dalton and Geoff Milne |
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Sweet Consolation 1966-73 Python Lee Jackson  All three singles from one of the most popular Sydney bands from the 60s featuring Mal McGee on lead vocals. The band re-grouped in London in the late 60s and went on to back Rod Stewart on the Python Lee Jackson hit 'In A Broken Dream'. This 'classic reissue' contains a new version of the song by songwriter David Bentley plus all 1968-73 London recordings (except the Rod Stewart-sung tracks). All 24 songs first time on cd, including 11 unreleased-until-now. Plus 36 page booklet. |
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Catching Bream Ruby for Lucy  CD out 21st August - available now on iTunes
Ruby for Lucy (Julie Stenton and Kat Borghetti) make lovely, dreamy, whimsical pop music with two guitars and beautiful harmonies. These Sydneysiders are joined by their delightful double bassist and drummer on their debut, nine-track mini-album. |
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SHE LOVES YOU TOO SHE LOVES YOU TOO  A compilation different to any other! Recorded between 1994-1998 it is a ‘fake girl group compilation’ finally released now to celebrate Half A Cow’s Sweet Sixteenth. Featuring songs written by the Half A Cow roster (Robyn St Clare, Nic Dalton, Tania ‘Spdfgh’ Bowers, Sidewinder’s Nick and Martin Craft, Tom Morgan) and music by Nic Dalton, Shane Melder, Nick and Martin Craft from Sidewinder with lead vocals by Juliana Hatfield, Lara “Ben Lee band” Meyerratken, Sally “New Buffalo” Russell, Kirsty read more |
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Manilow 2CD (Classic Reissue) Smudge  CLASSIC RE-ISSUE
Originally released in 1994, Manilow holds the title of biggest-selling Half A Cow record as it was also released in UK by Domino and labels in Canada and Japan. Featuring the songwriting talent of guitarist Tom Morgan, along with bassist Adam Yee and drummer Alison 'Galfunk' Galloway, it's 21 songs of fast-paced innercity fuzzy-pop. Expanded to a two-disc set with six acoustic Tom demos (worth the admission alone) and eleven Triple J live-at-the-wireless tracks. Includeread more |
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Mo' Poontang Smudge  |
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Real McCoy, Wrong Sinatra Smudge  AUGUST 2008: Currently out of stock available as iTunes download only
Some say this is the best Smudge album. |
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Eighteen In A Week Smudge  Lifted from their third proper album, Real McCoy Wrong Sinatra, 'Eighteen In A Week' is a bouncin', two and a bit minutes of smudgin' pop backed by four new tracks including a full band version of 'Real McCoy Wrong Sinatra'. The third proper track, 'Gutless Wonder', reveals the dark underbelly of the Smudge world hinted at on the album on tracks like 'Jo Jo & The Guts' and 'I Was Born To Change The World'. 'Nothing To Lose' and companion track 'And Plenty To Prove' show that, yes, even Smread more |
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This Smudge Is True Smudge  27 track compilation of Smudge songs from 1991-1998.
First ever complete Smudge ‘best of’ compilation. Includes the classic ‘Don’t Want To Be Grant McLennan’, ‘The Outdoor Type’, ‘Tenderfoot’ and ‘Divan’ (as made famous by Evan Dando’s Lemonheads). Bet you knew that anyway!
The compilation has been put together by long-time Smudge associate Nic Dalton (who produced half the songs) and includes a mammoth full-colour 36 page booklet with all the information you’ll ever need to know about Smread more |
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Just The Blues Sped Up Sneeze  Sneeze do a complete u-turn from the soul sounds of 2001's Lost The Spirit To Rock & Roll and come up with a sprawling, crazed and defiant 20-track ode to Rock & Roll. The recording of Just The Blues Sped Up dates back to 1998 when Sneeze planned to trump their 41 Songs In 47 Minutes album with a 50-tracker. Realising that they didn't need to prove for a second time that they could put out a record crammed with short tunes, instead all the sad, sweet soul songs were assembleread more |
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Sneeze (aka 41 Songs In 47 Minutes) Sneeze  CD DELETED available on iTunes only
The first cd release by Sneeze with 21 bonus songs. Tracks 2-21 taken from the double 7" album Sneeze (moo06) released in 1993. All songs recorded between August 1991 and April 1993. The Sneeze recordings began when they asked the 'overseas touring band' The Lemonheads, who they'd only just met a few days before, to come in (before sound check at The Landsdowne) and record a couple of songs. With co-producer Micread more |
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The Four Seezons Sneeze  12" Vinyl has extra post costs - see 'Shipping'
Vinyl comes with FREE cd-r of album!
Q: What does a band do after their last release - which was a ceedee with 41 songs in 47 minutes?
A: They record an 19 minute epic and release it on 12 inch vinyl only.
And this is exactly what Sneeze have done. In May 1996 Nic Dalton and Tom Morgan, the two heads of Sneeze, sat in a loungeroom about to head off to a recording studio to begin what they had been calling for a few years "Sneeze read more |
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Doctor Of Love/Loud & True Sneeze  DISC DELETED - available as a download only.
Track 1 from Lost The Spirit To Rock & Roll. All other tracks prevously unreleased. Russell Hopkinson (from You Am I) drums on tracks 1, 2, 3 and 5. Justin Credible lead vocals track 3. Keira Hopkinson lead vocals track 5. Robyn St. Clare backing vocals tracks 2, 5. Track 4, with Lara Meyarratken on drums, recorded live at the Sandringham, Newtown 28/8/98 (a week before it closed). Artwork by Simon Day (featuring the "Blind Love" doctor and nurse).read more |
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Lost The Spirit To Rock & Roll Sneeze  Comes with limited edition poster
Review: Sneeze have got soul. It's taken Tom Morgan and Nic Dalton five years to perfect, but Lost The Spirit To Rock & Roll is a masterstroke of songwriting and vision greater than anything they¹ve released before. Sneeze (and friends) sing unashamed lyrics of joy and sadness over simple melodies with expert arrangements, and wrap it up in strings and horns for that 70s soul authenticity.
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Grassroots iTUNES ONLY Spdfgh  iTunes download only The debut EP from Sydney band Spdfgh. |
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Leave Me Like This Spdfgh  iTunes download only.
The one and only album by mid-90s Sydney band Spdfgh. |
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The Quest For Rock & Roll Swayback  Swayback are a four-piece band from Adelaide who Half A Cow describe as 'swagger-rock' in the way that early 70s Flamin Groovies and the Stones are. This twelve track debut album is chock full of tunes from the pens of Brenton Masser and Matt Small - two gritty rockers who also master some mean duelling slide guitar, backed by the punchy rhythm section of Duane De Gruchy and Jason Sifis.
reviews:
“Swayback’s long awaited album ‘The Quest For Rock & Roll’ arrived with a bang in lateread more |
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One Way Traffic Swayback  Having toured their wild rockin' debut LP The Quest for Rock & Roll extensively throughout 2006, Swayback established themselves a reputation as one of Australia's premier live acts. Returning to the studio early this year, the band enlisted the help of multi-ARIA winning producer, Paul McKercher (Powderfinger, Augie March, Eskimo Joe), to create a brand new studio sound. The result? Swayback now has a new baby, its single 'One Way Traffic'. Showing plenty of the cheeky swagger that won tread more |
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The Last Unicorn Swirl  iTunes download only. The second album from Swirl. Ten out of ten!
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Satellites (One) Swirl  iTunes download only.
Handpicked by the band themselves, here is a digital double album of the best of the ep, b-sides and compilation tracks. Stay tuned for a best of Swirl cd in 2011. |
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Satellites (Two) Swirl  iTunes download only.
Handpicked by the band themselves, here is a digital double album of the best of the ep, b-sides, compilation tracks and two live songs. Stay tuned for a best of Swirl cd in 2011. |
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Aurora Swirl  iTunes download only The debut album. An "early 90s classic" from a truly majestic band.
(and for the trivia buffs: the first ever Half A Cow cd) |
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Soaking Red Tendrils  Tendrils Soaking Red is the first release from Joel Silbersher (who also releases records under the name Melonman and fronts Melbourne rock outfit Hoss) & Charlie Owen (one third of Tex, Don & Charlie, amongst many other credits) as a duo under this name. It is not, however, their first collaboration. In 1995 they released an album entitled Tendrils as "Joel Silbersher & Charlie Owen". The music that Tendrils make is hard to categorise. The "psych-folk" angle that some have taken iread more |
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the Honeymoon Period the Brutals  Following 2009's double A-side single Goldilocks/Walkabout comes The Brutals' long-overdue Debut LP the Honeymoon Period. Out on Half A Cow Records, and just in time for Valentine's Day!
Recorded and mixed by Craig Harnath & Finn Keane at Hothouse.
Produced by Craig Harnath & The Brutals.
Assisted by Jeremy Giddings.
Mastered by Jonathan Burnside at Eastern Bloc studios.
Featuring appearances by Ben Butcher (Assassination Collective), Shags Chamberlain (The Smallgoods), Yolanda Dread more |
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Where Are All The Single Girls? The Eastern Dark  A Half A Cow Classic Reissue.
Originally released in July 2000 on cd in a HAC-designed all cardboard gatefold sleeve with inserts and a 44-page booklet.
February 2010: This album is back in stock and now packed in an ECO-BOX (better for the environment than a regular jewel case) with a reduced 40-page booklet (we shuffled the pages around so it's all still there except the 'Gear n Stuff' page and the Julie 7" drawing). Plus the same timeless music!
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Lipsnipegroin 2CD THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS  Much loved Sydney-via-Canberra band from the early '80s featuring Juliet Ward, Greg Appel, Blue Dalton, Stephen 'Cannanes' O'Neil and Steven Williams with a collection of pretty much everything they recorded including the classic Gargoyle single and Springtime, one of the greatest pop songs ever written. |
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Driving You Insane The Missing Links  A Half A Cow Classic Reissue.
Originally released in 1999 on cd in a HAC-designed all cardboard gatefold sleeve with inserts and a 40-page booklet.
NEWS FLASH!
10th anniversary edition of the long-out-of-print reissue of the 1965 album by 'Australia’s wildest garage-punk band'. This reissue contains all 17 songs by the second line-up featuring Andy Anderson (these days a well-known actor) and Doug 'Masters Apprentices' Ford. The release has been re-paread more |
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No No No Not Like That the MoMos  The Momos – the brainchild of Drew Thomason - have been playing around Sydney for a few years and now, with a solidified lineup including Pat ‘Falling Joys’ Hayes and Justin ‘Whopping Big Naughty’ Hayes, they have recorded their debut album featuring Sarah Moore on the drums. You could file the MoMos under ‘alternative rock’ but the band is too original, too mysterious and too weird to be left at that. Lead solos, prog riffs and beautiful harmonies abound on this special album. |
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Benzedrine Beat R&B Raveup with bonus Coloured Balls 1964-70 The Purple Hearts  From the producers of the awesome Missing Links cd reissue comes...the complete Purple Hearts on cd. Including all Sunshine label tracks from master tape and 4 early recordings reissued for the first time. As a bonus the cd also contains 7 unreleased tracks from 1969-70 by the original Coloured Balls, featuring Mick Hadley and Bob Dames from the Hearts. High energy R&B all the way! Amazing 36 page booklet with the full Hearts & Balls stories plus loads of photos sourced from original Go-Set magaread more |
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Let The Wild Rumpus Start the Raylenes  Debut album from Melbourne band the Raylenes. They seemed to have disappeared off the edge of the world. Great record, though! |
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Listen To The Radio the Smallgoods 
Buy the new Smallgoods album from Half A Cow and get either Listen To The Radio or This Is The Show for only $10 each
The Smallgoods' anticipated debut album Listen To The Radio. The album is a celebration of the airwaves. It skips along like your favourite radio station where every song is one you want read more |
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This Is The Show the Smallgoods 
Buy the new Smallgoods album from Half A Cow and get either Listen To The Radio or This Is The Show for only $10 each
The players, in order of appearance:
Shags - synthesisers, keyboards
Ben Mason - singing, guitars, bells
Gus Franklin - singing, drums, tambourines
Lachlan Franklin - singing, guitars,read more |
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Down On The Farm the Smallgoods  Buy the new Smallgoods album from Half A Cow and get either Listen To The Radio or This Is The Show for only $10 each
The third and most ambitious Smallgoods album to date, Down on the Farm offers an escape from hectic city life by finding solace in the country through jaunty folk songs, eerie spacious epics, dark ballads and gentle psychedelia, whilst not cread more |
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Don't Talk About Us 2CD The Someloves  February 2008 Back in stock
Hot on the heels of the Purple Hearts and Smudge, here is another 'Classic Reissue' from Half A Cow.
Four years in the making, the complete Someloves recorded output is here - including the entire classic 1989 album Something Or Other plus all b-sides and their first single on Citadel, 'It's My Time', backed with the majestic 'Don't Talk About Us'.
A double cd with a 36 page booklet relating the entire history of band membersread more |
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Seventy-Five Year Plan The Triangles  a word from the Triangles:
Recorded between November 2005 and January 2007 at the Immortal Combat Sound Facility in Melbourne, 75YP features thirteen new songs, each of which is filled with words and musical notes that have been carefully arranged into detailed sequences and patterns for your listening pleasure. The recipe?Three or four handfuls of psychedelic pop, two quarts of country and western, a dash of folk rock (beaten lightly) and then season to taste with lyric booklet and coriread more |
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Magic Johnson The Triangles  Originally released on July 2005. Re-releassed June 2010.
Melbourne's the Triangles take over Spain with their song Applejack in Estrella Damm's 2010 summer ad campaign. That's the band playing in it. In the last week of May 2010 it was the #1 song on iTunes in Spain and that was even before the ad hit the tv screens, all due to Youtube, the internet and good ol' word-of-mouth.
The Triangles, from Melbourne, are self-described as 'three girls and two guys who like to play fun and frantic hread more |
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That's Life The Wild Cherries  The complete recordings by Australia's premier psychedelic R&B combo - all sides of their four 45s and SIXTEEN previously unreleased tracks.
The next installment of Half A Cow's CLASSIC REISSUE series.
That's Life is a compilation of the Wild Cherries - the second '60s band of Lobby Loyde, Australia's first guitar hero and the guy who taught Billy Thorpe to play.
After he left the Purple Hearts, Lobby Loyde went onto Melbourne's Wild Cherries. By the time Lobby joined, the band read more |
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Suburban Parallax Vermishus  Half A Cow Records is proud to present their latest signing, Vermishus - a young rock band, fresh out of Sydney's Eastwood. Suburban Parallax is their debut mini-album, which was two years in the making, from that first time Half A Cow put their demo cd in the player (picked out of the mail because the hand-drawn, wobbly-writing, black-and-white photocopied demo cover was so...well, demo-ish) only to be completely blown away by the amazing vocals (can one person really sing so low and so read more |
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Time's Come EP Warmer  Warmer is John Encarnacao’s band who include Michael O’Regan, Jess Ciampa and Peter Marley. Laidback psychedelic pop featuring guests Jen Cloher and J Walker (Machine Translations) on the alt-country ‘Clear Light’. They flesh out Elliott Smith’s beautiful but skeletal ‘Say Yes’ and add acoustic warmth to Bjork’s ‘Hyperballad’. The songwriting depth and breadth of John Encarnacao is further demonstrated by the heart-wrenching country rock ballad ‘Time’s Come To Let Go’, the brooding ‘Where Were read more |
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The Cat's Miaow Warmer  The second album from Warmer - released 29th July, 2005. |
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Night Kitchen We Grow Up  Half A Cow made this record a cd of the week and loved it so much, we have given it a national release. From Adelaide...to the world!
Reviews: It's always nice to take a sense of pride in the music coming out locally, and from the first moments of We Grow Up's sophomore album it's pretty clear that this is one. Read on for more reviews.
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Bender Whopping Big Naughty  REVIEWS:
Justin Hayes AKA Stanley Claret surely must have been the troublemaker within the Hayes clan as a kid. Whilst most Sydneysiders have warmed to Bernie's solo material and Stevie Plunder's early (and tragically premature) days in the Whitlams, Justin's old school rock outfit Whopping Big Naughty seem in contrast as the abrasive and blatantly obnoxious antithesis of this pop sensibility. Not that this is a bad thing. Bender produces a fairly consistent level of 70's inspirread more |
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